可持续和盈利的业务是解决气候变化的关键

总裁兼首席执行官Kaiöistämö& Chair of the Board of Directors Ville Voipio

解决气候变化并响应其他全球大趋势是希望将来成功的公司的先决条件。甚至在大流行中,需求恢复和关于气候变化的论述也有所增加。

1921年,COVID-19的大流行仍在纪念2021年。我们的人员的健康和安全也是我们在Vaisala的优先事项,也是过去一年,我们的许多员工一直在远程工作,以确保那些无法在家工作的员工的安全由于他们的工作性质。除了自己的行动外,我们为我们的工具使我们能够成为解决方案的一部分并有助于减轻大流行的一部分感到自豪。我们帮助客户确保疫苗开发,生产和转移的最佳条件,从而保护全世界的人和社会。

尽管大流行,但在这一年中,经济开始恢复,这表明客户愿意投资测量技术。我们的出色结果和净销售表明,即使在不确定的世界状况下,我们也设法加强了我们在全球市场中的地位。该组成部分的短缺为全球所有公司带来了重大挑战,但是凭借积极的供应商管理和卓越运营,Vaisala能够保持其交付能力,甚至全年增加市场份额。我们值得称赞的是为客户服务。为此,我们要衷心感谢我们在全球的人员,尤其是在运营中的员工。

对于投资者,我们提供负责任的回报和可扩展的长期增长。我们在2021年提出了增长的野心,我们的最新战略是通过解决客户关键的挑战,并瞄准我们所选市场的领先地位,以积极寻求可持续的增长。我们策略的成功驱动力首先是我们参与的,才华横溢的员工以及产品和技术领导,深厚的客户理解和应用知识以及低混合,低批量业务的可扩展性。

Vaisala的业务非常适合主要的大型巨头核心,例如气候变化,可再生能源,资源效率和健康。我们的客户对Vaisala解决方案进行投资的意愿源于我们的产品和解决方案的领导:我们使他们能够可靠地做出关键业务决策并实现自己的盈利能力和可持续性目标。

公司的可持续性不仅仅是碳中立性

可持续性is at the core of Vaisala’s business. We continued integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into our business, and we are committed to the UN Global Compact initiative and its 10 principles regarding human rights, labor standards, environment, and anti-corruption. We strive to ensure human rights in our network, which is imperative for sustainable business in our global world.

因此,我们很高兴地报告说,在过去的一年中,我们的可持续性工作获得了杰出的认可。Vaisala在Sustainalytics的全球ESG比较中排名第五,涵盖了10,000多家上市公司。在芬兰,私人投资者将Vaisala投票为芬兰上市公司中最可持续的公司。此外,瓦萨拉(Vaisala)在金融时报上名列前茅的300名欧洲气候领导者中名列前茅 - 在2014 - 2019年期间,其排放量减少最多。

在第六次IPCC报告强调了这种情况的紧迫性之后,气候变化在更广泛的讨论中占据了空间。公司减少自己的环境足迹并管理其ESG风险已经不够了。在当今时代,所有希望在未来取得成功的公司都需要研究其业务与世界挑战的关系并相应地续签其业务。企业本身应该产生这样的影响,以使其成为将我们的星球构建成可持续人类生活的一部分。

Vaisala的目的是通过例如继续使用100%可再生电力并强调其所有设施的能源效率,从而最大程度地减少其自身的碳足迹。但是,更重要的是,Vaisala参与理解,缓解和适应气候变化的业务。首先,我们的天气测量技术可以帮助专家和科学家了解这种现象。其次,我们通过帮助客户减少其排放并更有效地利用行星的资源以及通过提供具有成本效益的可再生能源生产解决方案来缓解气候变化。第三,通过我们的天气观察解决方案,我们提高了公司和社会的能力,以适应气候变化的负面影响,例如极端天气。

To have a long-term positive impact on humankind, our business needs to be both sustainable and profitable.

"It is no longer enough that a company decreases its own environmental footprint and manages its ESG risks. In this day and age, all companies wanting to succeed in the future need to look at how their business relates to the world’s challenges and to renew their business accordingly."

研发是我们成功的基石

To keep our market leader position and to create innovations for the world’s needs also in the future, we invest significantly in research and development. In 2021, these investments constituted 13% of our net sales.

在2021年春天,我们在芬兰万塔塔(Vantaa)开设了一个世界领先的研发中心。新建筑支持我们的增长野心,是我们连续创新的跳板。该中心拥有大约40个顶级专业实验室,所有这些实验室都为我们的专家提供了杰出的工作环境。此外,Vaisala与世界各地的精选大学和科学研究机构深入互动,这使我们能够保持相关技术的最前沿。

我们全面地为客户提供服务,构建最先进的测量工具,并越来越关注数字解决方案,例如经常性收入业务模型。在2022年初宣布,我们收购了美国的Aerisweather,基于订阅的软件公司提供天气和环境信息,也支持这一点。

员工构成健康公司的骨干

Engaged and talented employees make Vaisala’s success, and they have done tremendous work also during these past two exceptional years. We are very happy that our people have remained engaged and motivated also during these challenging times.

While the pandemic has accelerated more flexible working practices, it has also generated new challenges. We established a Future of Work project group to understand what Vaisala’s employees want from their work in the future and started to develop guidelines for future working practices. In the fall, we saw more and more employees gradually moving back to the office only to reverse back to remote work as the COVID-19 situation deteriorated towards the end of the year. The learnings from the new hybrid ways of working during the autumn as well past years will enable us to find the optimal working practices in the rapidly evolving situation.

我们员工的福祉也至关重要。我们推动提高我们的工作社区和社会中的多样性,公平性和包容性。我们在2021年开始开发工作,通过建立一个工作组并扩大我们的员工调查,并提出有关该主题的问题。这个主题对我们来说越来越不可或缺,我们将在2022年及以后关注它。多样化的思维,欣赏文化和敬业的员工是更平等的社会,新创新和公司表现的基础。

未来是一起建立的

The year 2021 was filled with lots of great stories and highlights that are depicted in this report. One of these was the triumphant Mars journey of our technology, together with the Finnish Meteorological Institute. In February, the Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet, sending its first successful measurements during the spring. Our space journey is an excellent reflection of the Vaisala spirit. It is a testament to the reliable quality of our products and product development, and it brought our proud employees together even remotely, which was more important than ever in these exceptional times.

With this focus, we continue developing the most reliable measurement technology to solve global challenges. We do this by serving our customers with the best product and application expertise as well as by providing our personnel with development opportunities and work with a purpose. Together, we will continue to build a more sustainable future also in 2022 and beyond.

Ville Voipio
董事会主席

Kaiöistämö
总裁兼首席执行官